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calvermegan · 2025-02-03T21:02:18+00:00

I have always said Crispy Cream. That is what they were called on any American tv show I watched growing up. Now they are mainstream in the UK I often hear people call them “Crispy Crem” Which one do you say?

HangryLikeTheHulk · 04/02/2025 08:17

Crispy Cremation

TemporaryPosition · 04/02/2025 08:16

illegalSausage · 04/02/2025 06:58

I didn't know they were US just saw them pop up around me one day in London.
Even in the US there are French words like rendez vous, creme de la creme, creme anglaise and en route. Don't they speak French in Louisianna? I more saw that it's a food item with some stuff (glaze) so creme made sense to me.

As an aside I think they're horrid. I don't think US sugary stuff is great in general.

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I agree, I think it's a stupid name and they're neither crispy nor creamy and when you make words up how are we supposed to know how they're intended to be pronounced. "Kreme" to me did look like it ought to have been pronounced "creme" but as I first learned of their existence in an episode of Sex and the City they set me straight.

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 04/02/2025 08:12

AtomHeartMotherOfGod · 04/02/2025 07:12

I was laughing at Trump talking about the 'huge' deficit in trade with the EU and the fact they don't want anything US... it's because half the stuff you sell is shit, mate, or in the case of your meat, produced by companies who encourage deforestation, or pumped full of chemicals.

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A lot of what is produced in the US can't be sold in the EU because it doesn't meet European safety standards.

AtomHeartMotherOfGod · 04/02/2025 07:12

illegalSausage · 04/02/2025 06:58

I didn't know they were US just saw them pop up around me one day in London.
Even in the US there are French words like rendez vous, creme de la creme, creme anglaise and en route. Don't they speak French in Louisianna? I more saw that it's a food item with some stuff (glaze) so creme made sense to me.

As an aside I think they're horrid. I don't think US sugary stuff is great in general.

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I was laughing at Trump talking about the 'huge' deficit in trade with the EU and the fact they don't want anything US... it's because half the stuff you sell is shit, mate, or in the case of your meat, produced by companies who encourage deforestation, or pumped full of chemicals.

ThePoshUns · 04/02/2025 07:11

I'd say Crem as well, but I don't eat them and have never given it a thought until now.

Lulu1919 · 04/02/2025 06:58

Crispy cream

illegalSausage · 04/02/2025 06:58

TemporaryPosition · 04/02/2025 06:15

But they're American not French and 'Kreme' is just a spelling they've gone for in thier brand to make it sound fast foody I assume

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I didn't know they were US just saw them pop up around me one day in London.
Even in the US there are French words like rendez vous, creme de la creme, creme anglaise and en route. Don't they speak French in Louisianna? I more saw that it's a food item with some stuff (glaze) so creme made sense to me.

As an aside I think they're horrid. I don't think US sugary stuff is great in general.

WashYourDamnRice · 04/02/2025 06:52

CerealPosterHere · 04/02/2025 06:21

Well my dh called it Hirspy Herme as he couldn’t read the writing on the sign and thought it was a H. So that’s how we pronounce it here now!

I love how total boob moments are immortalised forever and adopted as standard language. It makes life a little more fun.

Frangela · 04/02/2025 06:51

AtomHeartMotherOfGod · 03/02/2025 21:06

Yeah I'm also Crispy Cream. I have heard the Crem alternative though. It reminds me of Anne Boleyn's 'Cremuel' in Wolf Hall 🤔

That is very literary of you. Though I am a huge Mantel fan, it reminds me of ‘crematorium’.😀

WashYourDamnRice · 04/02/2025 06:49

It's crispy cream.

Can't believe there's people out there that actually say crem egg.
I despise cream eggs so I shouldn't care, but I'm incredulous at this revelation.

User7288339 · 04/02/2025 06:38

Krispy crem people are saying it wrong!

illegalSausage · 04/02/2025 06:23

nationalsausagefund · 04/02/2025 06:12

I’m going to go ahead and assume all the people pronouncing it “crem” also say “marshmellow”.

I think I do! How could you tell? 🤣

XWKD · 04/02/2025 06:22

It doesn't matter how you pronounce it, it's still over-sweetened junk that tastes unremarkable.

CerealPosterHere · 04/02/2025 06:21

Well my dh called it Hirspy Herme as he couldn’t read the writing on the sign and thought it was a H. So that’s how we pronounce it here now!

TemporaryPosition · 04/02/2025 06:15

AcquadiP · 04/02/2025 01:04

The pronunciation is exactly the same as Crispy Creme. Creme is a French word meaning 'cream.' Creme is pronounced 'Crem.' So Crispy Crem.

But they're American not French and 'Kreme' is just a spelling they've gone for in thier brand to make it sound fast foody I assume

TemporaryPosition · 04/02/2025 06:13

Mangoesintoapub · 03/02/2025 21:14

Does anyone say Crem Egg?

If it was a Kreme Egg and I didn't have an authoritative pronunciation to rely on, I might have said crem?

nationalsausagefund · 04/02/2025 06:12

I’m going to go ahead and assume all the people pronouncing it “crem” also say “marshmellow”.

ArcticBells · 04/02/2025 06:07

Cream

AnnaQuayInTheUk · 04/02/2025 04:42

Crispy Cream. Although I don't think I've ever spoken the words aloud, it's how I say it in my head.

GiveMeCoffeeandTV · 04/02/2025 04:40

tilypu · 03/02/2025 21:07

https://x.com/krispykremeUK/status/1590375932568948738?t=imXb_rUyPeUEzsOmemImLA&s=19

From the horses mouth

Tilypu posted the definitive answer from the company - crispy cream

AcquadiP · 04/02/2025 01:04

The pronunciation is exactly the same as Crispy Creme. Creme is a French word meaning 'cream.' Creme is pronounced 'Crem.' So Crispy Crem.

HotCrossBunplease · 04/02/2025 00:36

illegalSausage · 03/02/2025 22:11

@MasterBeth krem

@StrawberrySquash thats so funny! I have never heard anyone say crem for crematorium because its not a word most of us say often enough to need to abbreviate.

Ah bless you, you must be quite young and/or not be close to any older relatives. When you are at the age to have friends dying regularly, believe me there is a lot of talk about what people will be doing “after the crem”.

MrsJHernandez · 04/02/2025 00:31

Crispy cream

AnotherDayAnotherIdea · 04/02/2025 00:23

If it were crem it would at lease have an accent on it like this krème.

mathanxiety · 04/02/2025 00:09

"Crispy Cream" (am in the US and that's how it's pronounced here).